At 82, the supreme urt jtice cut through the qutn of gay marriage’s nstutnaly a way that seemed to move even her most nservative peers
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RUTH BAR GSBURG BELIEV THE US IS READY FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Two months after she joed a landmark Supreme Court lg that said the feral ernment mt regnize gay marriag, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg on Saturday was reportedly officiatg such a weddg. * ruth bader ginsburg gay marriage *
Legal regnn of queer liv, same-sex marriage equaly, the crimalizatn of homosexualy, and job protectns: Ruth Bar Gsburg’s impact on the liv of LGBTQ+ Amerins is lculable, as is the potential impact of her ath on Friday. ”Jtic Slia, Thomas, and Rehnquist dissented, wh Slia argug that was “ratnal” to whhold protectns for queer people bee their behavr was that homosexualy was crimalized would not rema the se for much longer, thanks part to Gsburg.
Gsburg once aga joed the majory fdg that the crimalizatn of homosexualy was was a particularly plex cisn, bee the urt had upheld crimalizatn nearly 20 years earlier. But the majory, wh which Gsburg joed, found that the earlier lg “means the liv of homosexual persons, ” and that “was not rrect when was cid, and is not rrect today. Clayton County, ncerng a gay employee fired after he mentned jog a gay softball league; he sued, seekg to have sexual orientatn and genr inty regnized as protected class the same way as race and disabily.